[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”]
[av_heading heading=’Social media misused – IPPO ‘ tag=’h3′ style=’blockquote modern-quote’ size=” subheading_active=’subheading_below’ subheading_size=’15’ padding=’10’ color=” custom_font=”]
Ni Ime Sornito
[/av_heading]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=’custom’ color=’#0a0a0a’]
Sunday, February 12, 2017
[/av_textblock]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=’custom’ color=’#0a0a0a’]
ILOILO – There is no truth to what is being spread through social media – that jail escapees from Masbate have reached northern Iloilo and are sowing terror there.
This information is false so stop spreading them on Facebook, Twitter and other social media applications, according to Chief Inspector Aron Palomo, spokesperson of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO).
The chiefs of police of northern Iloilo towns (5th District) – Ajuy, Balasan, Barotac Viejo, Batad, Carles, Concepcion, Estancia, Lemery, and Sara – all denied the reports of unidentified men robbing houses, killing residents and raping young women.
“The IPPO has not received reports from its various police stations in northern Iloilo about those. Ang nagalapta nga messages sa social media wala ina sang kamatuoran,” Palomo told Panay News.
He urged social media users to be discerning of the information they share.
If there are, indeed, criminal activities, the best thing to do is alert the local police and barangay officials, he stressed.
For his part, 5th District’s Cong. Raul Tupas described the information spreading in his turf as exaggerations and patently false.
“There’s no proof, no police blotter reports even,” he said in a radio interview, adding that he was constantly in contact with the police commanders of his nine municipalities and their local government units.
Chief Inspector Charlie Sustento, police chief of Ajuy, agreed with Tupas that the social media information being spread was “exaggeration gid lang.”
He urged the people of Ajuy to remain calm.
Sustento warned of the negative effects of the false information.
“This can adversely affect the tourism industry of the 5th District,” he said.
Northern Iloilo is known for it rich fishing grounds and islands with stunning beaches and dive sites.
Senior Inspector Johny Tumambing, Estancia police chief, urged people to be analytical of the information they receive through social media.
“If, indeed, it’s true that 150 prisoners bolted out of a jail in Masbate province, why was this not even reported by the national press?” he asked.
Also two weeks ago, two bonnet-wearing men were reported stalking Barangay Cano-an in Estancia. Worried barangay officials and tanods conducted nightly foot patrol in the hope of apprehending the men.
Residents were upset, according to Barangay Captain Buday Carbonilla of Cano-an.
The barangay captains of 24 other villages of Estancia joined the nightly foot patrols, Carbonilla added.
The Estancia police was puzzled by the claims of some villagers.
They were big men and also wore black shirts, said Carbonilla, citing the statements of residents who claimed to have seen the two men.
From what the barangay officials of Cano-an gathered from residents who claimed to have seen the men, the two moved fast.
“Tuman ka dasig. Indi kami ka intindi kon ano ini sila. Daw sa isang iglap gakadula sila,” said Carbonilla./PN
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]
